Chris Pine Quotes
My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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I listen to so much music every day, so that's such a big part of my life. To be able to pursue that and put out my own stuff is definitely a goal. I don't want to put something out that I'm not proud of because I think it's so easy to say, 'I'm an actress/musician.'
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Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.
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My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.
